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Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created by supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between about 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, [1] [2] contradicting established scientific data for the age of Earth putting it at around 4.54 billion years.
The Discovery Institute rejects the term creationism, which it defines narrowly as meaning young earth creationism, [93] though in court intelligent design was found to be creationism. [ 94 ] In October 1999 the Michael Polanyi Center was founded in the science faculty of Baylor University , a Baptist college, to study intelligent design.
In 1990, Kurt Wise introduced baraminology as an adaptation of Marsh's and Walter ReMine's ideas that was more in keeping with young Earth creationism. Wise advocated using the Bible as a source of systematic data. [2] Baraminology and its associated concepts have been criticized by scientists and creationists for lacking formal structure.
The chronology is sometimes associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was created only a few millennia ago by God as described in the first two chapters of the biblical book of Genesis. Ussher's work fell into disrepute in the 19th century.
The Creation Museum is a young Earth creationism museum run by Answers in Genesis (AiG) in Petersburg, Kentucky, United States. The ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History is a young Earth creationist museum run by Institute for Creation Research (ICR) in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Creationism is the religious belief that the Universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine creation." For young Earth creationists , this includes a biblical literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative and the rejection of the scientific theory of evolution .
Museum of Earth History, located in Dallas, Texas, [32] [33] was described by The Guardian as "first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective" and was constructed as a joint venture of the Creation Truth Foundation and the Great Passion Play outdoor Biblical theme park, which attracts over seven million visitors a year to its 4,500 ...
Rejection of evolution by religious groups, sometimes called creation–evolution controversy, has a long history. [1] In response to theories developed by scientists, some religious individuals and organizations question the legitimacy of scientific ideas that contradicted the young earth pseudoscientific interpretation of the creation account in Genesis.